From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon May 5 16:04:55 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id QAA26415 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 5 May 1997 16:04:55 -0700 (PDT) Received: from panda.hilink.com.au (panda.hilink.com.au [203.2.144.5]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA26402 for ; Mon, 5 May 1997 16:04:48 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from danny@localhost) by panda.hilink.com.au (8.8.5/8.7.3) id JAA21268; Tue, 6 May 1997 09:07:24 +1000 (EST) Date: Tue, 6 May 1997 09:07:23 +1000 (EST) From: "Daniel O'Callaghan" To: Mr M P Searle cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Very small machine - RAM? In-Reply-To: <1450.199705051518@ganoid.csv.warwick.ac.uk> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Mon, 5 May 1997, Mr M P Searle wrote: > How much memory is the minimum that would be needed for a very small FBSD > system? It wouldn't need to run the installer (5MB), so certainly 4MB would > be enough - but would 3 or 2 be OK? It only needs an IDE disk and a net 4 MB is the best you could realistically do. I have a customer with a 4 MB machine, and it is a pain to do administrative work on. 3 years ago I ran a router as a 386SX-16 with 2 MB RAM and a 40 MB hard disk. It took 20 seconds to start 'vi', almost as long to let me log in. But this was using FreeBSD 1.1, which had a smaller memory footprint than 2.x. RAM is cheap. Use it and be happy. Where are you going to get 3 MB of RAM from anyway? You still have 256k SIMMs lying around? Sell them as keyrings and buy so real RAM. Danny